Today was another free day, for the most part. We had the morning and afternoon for our own plans, so of course, I wanted to sleep in a little to catch up on some rest. By sleeping in, though, I mean getting up at 8 am instead of 6 am. A group of us walked […]
Trip Blogs!
Media City
In the morning we piled into the bus and I mean piled, we had to crawl over suitcases, and made our way to Media City. Dr. Annabelle Waller greeted us and toured us around Salford University. Salford feels like a media conservatory because they have some of the finest equipment I’ve seen at a school. […]
Day 10: Exploring Edinburgh
We started our day off this morning by getting breakfast at our hotel and preparing for our media visits. We walked to the French Embassy where we met with Ollie Davis from the Fringe Society, the charity that oversees the operation of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Ollie is the head of marketing for the group […]
Liverpool Sick Day
I woke up feeling worse than I have in over a year. I’m pretty sure this was the result of a sinus infection, and man, it was brutal. I was absolutely miserable for our Beatles Tour. I wanted, more than anything, to stay in bed that day and not go outside. I could have watched […]
Something Rotten in the State of my Sinuses
I’d start this post with a witty Shakespeare quote/pun but that would require me to do more research than I am currently willing to do to make the joke any good. Instead I will just say that the best part of the Shakespeare tour was seeing the Royal Shakespeare Company. They have several different buildings […]
Windsor Castle
It’s almost embarrassing that I’ve never been to a castle before, being that I am a fantasy nerd. Windsor Castle was everything I could have wanted and we were lucky to visit on a beautiful, clear spring day. Our tour guide was a gentle, theatrical man with a clear passion for English History. Occasionally he […]
Day Seven: Liverpool
Liverpool contained the first hills I had seen in the UK. This may be a strange observation, but I noticed that every area in the UK that we’ve ventured to thus far had been relatively flat, except some small inclines in Windsor, but none too significant. We had to walk up hills for dinner, a […]
Thoughts from the Airport: Day 12
Reflection on the Past Weeks Upon arriving at the airport, we learned that our flight was going to be delayed by a few hours. After doing some shopping around, I decided to sit down with a coffee, look through my pictures, and just reflect on the past weeks. Honestly, the last thirteen days felt like […]
Day 8: Media City, Home to the BBC
Today was another professional day, we had visits with multiple personalities across the board. It was a full day of lectures and tours across Media City campus in Manchester. It seemed like this was a Manchester version of Silicon Valley. When we arrived at media city and it was a sight to behold. The campus […]
Day 10: I Can’t Get No Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
We had another gorgeous day in Edinburgh today. We had to be ready and down in the lobby at 9:45 so that we could make our lecture at the French embassy about the Fringe Festival. Fringe is a yearly three-week arts festival that takes place in Edinburgh as well as all over the world. The […]